The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT Portsmouth the City Marshal started from
his office to catch a train and had to run for it,
Bystanders, supposing it was a chase for thief
turned in on the run, and by the time the per-
spring officer had reached the platform OF his
train a half hundred men and boys were close
at his heels, sold.
A FARMER of Smithfeld, n. c., who had pre-
viousy been taken in by confidence sharps in
New York, opened a correspondence under an
assumed name with the same advertisers, after
he got home, arranged an interview with them,
and this week succeeded in placing one of the
active schemers in the hands of the police
DURING last winter the barn and haystack of
Adam Hyman, living near Sanilac, Mich, were
burned and his house was set on fire several
times. Two young girls who lived with his fam
lily have confessed that they started the fires.
They said they were tired of living in the coun-
try and thought that the Hymans would move
to town if their property was destroyed,
ONE of the editors of the New York CONNER
ciaI .Adue iscr has had curious experience.
When Phoebe Carey died, he wrote an apprecia-
tive editorial about the Carey sisters. That was
years ago. Recently this editor received from
a contributor, as an original article, the same
editorial copied verbatim. Plagiarism is dan
gerous kind of roguery, and yet many people
attempt it.
THE great seal of the United States, at pres
ent in USE was adopted by Congress June 20,
1882. The device was submitted to Congress by
Charles Thomson, then secretary of that body,
and was largely suggested by the eminent Eng
lish antiquary, Sir John Priestwich. to John
Adams. The motto, ''E Plltribus UnuBl," is
said to have been suggested by its appearance
on the title-page of the London Gentleman S
Magazine.
HIGGINS, the appointment Clerk, about whom
so much political clamor was raised, has turned
out to be a very harmless fellow. The import
ance of his Office was absurdly overrated at the
time of his appointment. His duties consist
simply of the registration of appointments made
by his superiors. These duties he performs
creditably. He writes a good hand, is a quiet
humorist in his way and by no means the bette
notre he was painted.
MISSIONARIES say that in China the people pay
rapt attention to preaching when they don't
understand word of what is said. While preach
ing one day missionary noticed a man who
seemed especially Interested and paid marked
attention, apparently, TO what was being said
Thinking that there was an opportunity of
reaching an earnest soul, he directed all his at
tention to him, and was considerably nonplIssed
when, at the end of about fifteen minutes the
man turned to his neighbor and said in an audi
Bile tone, Hes drunk!''
REV. DR.. FORBES, of St Paul. is a pretty Wig
orous preacher. Here is a bit from one of his
recent sermons: "A Y. NJ c. A. young man
gave a starving woman a tract and nothing
more and went his way. He told a lawyer after.
ward that he had never seen such a spirit of
Christian resignation as that woman manifested
in receiving the tract. And the lawyer Swore at
him. think that if there was ever time for
swearing then it was. God would surely pardon
it, If am hungry, and a fellow offers me bread
and prayers, l Will take the bread and do my
own praying.
THE right of individual opinion is tenaciousy
conserved among the aborigines of South
district have been holding jubilee meetings after
the manner of their Caucasian fellow subjects
and the diversity of attitude on the question of
celebration was likewise characteristic of a good
deal that has happened in England. A con-
gratulatory address to the Queen was voted, but
an address of gratitude for the approaching re-
lease of political prisoners was rejected by the
voice of the young warriors, who conceived that
no gratitude was due, and accordingly outvoted
the elders.
A VERY FUNNY STORY is being related of an adj
venture that has just befallen young recruit of
Strasburg. AS he was being examined by the
military surgeons ere entering The ranks, it was
found that nearly the whole of his body was
tattoOed over with the words ''Vive la France. -
The startled medcos twined and twisted the
youth about, and discovered that there was only
one exception to the inscriptions with which the
Alsatian had adorned himself, and this con-
sisted of an equally brief sentence express
i've of the utmost contempt for the Rus
SLAMS. The Individual on whom the art of
the tattooer had been thus lavishly practiced
has been condemned, as first installment, to
six months Imprisonment.
THERE was recently sold at auction in Paris
for only $40 letter written by Louis Napoleon
to his uncle, Joseph Bonaparte, soon after the
Strasburg flasco. 1t was tinsed with the meIan-
choly characteristic of the writer even in the
best days Of the Empire. when one does not
succeed" ne wrote of the StraSburg affair,
''one's intentions are misrepresented and one is
calumnated and blamed, even by friends.
will not, therefore, try to excuse myself to you.
/ leave tomorrow for America, and you will do
me great favor by giving me some letters of
recommendation for Philadelphia and New Y ork.
In leaving Europe, perhaps forever / am in
hnijely panied when l think that, even in my
family, no one will feel for my fate
PEOPLE who are asking what kinds of trees to
plant on Arbor day may get hint from Spen-
GERS lines
The sailing Pine; the Cedar proud and tall;
The vine-prop Elm the Poplar never dry;
The builder oak: sole king Of forests all;
The Aspen, good for slaves the Cypress funeral;
The Laurel, need of mighty conquerors
And poets sage; the Fir, that weepeth STILL
The Willow, worn of hopeless paramours;
The Yew, obedient to the Blenders will;
The Birch, for shafts; the Saow, for the mill;
The Myrrh, sweet blending in the bitter wound
The warlike Beech; the Ash for nothing ILL.,
The fruitful Olive and the Plantane round;
The carver Holm; the Maple seldom inward
sound.
THE Paris Anarchists are impossible people
Some of them having been lately invited to the
grand ball given in the magnificent Hotel de
Vile. erected on the ruins of the building which
was burned down by themselves or their friends
in 1871, they Immediately sent back TO the or
ganizers Of the fete a most discourteous note
This communication set forth that the recipients
of the invitation were astounded at having been
asked by the Paris municipal council to assist
at the high jinks Of a parcel of bourgeois up
starts. The Anarchists, in fact. broadly limited
that the organizers of the ball were low lot :"
with whom they would by no means eat, drink
nor dance. As a climax to this peculiar lang
uage, the Anarchists declared that no relations
could exist between them and the habtues of
the bourgeois chattering- place called the Hotel
de Vile, other than those which existed in 1871
1t will thus be seen that the Anarchists, like the
Bourbons have learned nothing and forgotten
nothing.
IL the collection Of Leo Uppmannsohn, the
great German autograph gatherer, may be seen
manuscript opera by the Austrian Emperor
Ferdinand ILL.,; the original score of Albert
Lortzings unpublished operetta, Mozart"
consisting Of an overture and nine vocal mum.
burs, with orchestral accompaniment; chatty
letter written by Leopold Mozart 10 an intimate
friend and full of "lfeiste Woferl'sn exploits
Woferl was the great composers pet maine. by
which his father usually designated him In ia
miliar correspondence; and several manuscript
letters and score2 cminating from the pen Of
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